CVE-2015-2838: citrix netscaler Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-2838 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in citrix netscaler. EPSS estimates a 2.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 3 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 03-04-2015
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Nitro API in Citrix NetScaler before 10.5 build 52.3nc allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that execute arbitrary commands as nsroot via shell metacharacters in the file_name JSON member in params/xen_hotfix/0 to nitro/v1/config/xen_hotfix.

• CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.